How do I get into true full screen mode?

Windows - f8 gets to true, edge-to-edge full screen with no borders (say, viewing pics). "Fullscreen" with my iMac still leaves the Bookmarks, Address and Tab bars. So before I give up and go back to Windows (j/k...), is it possible?

You didn't mention what you are using to view your photo's. If you are using IPhoto, then up in the right hand corner of the screen, just bellow the Desktop toolbar there are two grey arrows. Click the one pointing up and it will take the border out to full screen. Then to get the desktop tool bar back again just push the mouse arrow up to the right hand corner of the screen and you will see two red arrows. Click on the down arrow and your toolbar will return. HTH.

In the top right corner of the window, there should be what looks like two arrows pointing away from each other. Click that to go to full screen. While in full screen you can swipe left or right across your Magic Mouse to switch between your desktop(s) and your full screen apps.

To exit full screen mode, move the mouse pointer towards the top of the screen to get the menu bar back. The same double arrow symbol will be in the top right corner highlighted in blue.

Caution: Don't go to full screen mode (click the double arrow thingamabob, upper right) and then go to Presentation. If you do, you will be stuck in Presentation (no option to see View).
You'll have to open a new window to be able to get out of Full.

Maybe. Of course it only seems "Incredibly poor design and ridiculously unnecessarily complicated"...because you didn't know how to do it. Now that you know how to do it...it's easy!

Things we don't know how to do almost always seem complicated...until we know how to do them.

Also...no one ever said that the Mac OS was 100% better than Windows in everything! Well...maybe some folks say this...but then they're not really being honest!

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Windows - f8 gets to true, edge-to-edge full screen with no borders (say, viewing pics). "Fullscreen" with my iMac still leaves the Bookmarks, Address and Tab bars. So before I give up and go back to Windows (j/k...), is it possible?

Just curious . . . but where in Windows does F8 go full screen? It has presentation mode (since Vista) in the mobility options, but even that isn't function key activated.

It's F11 in a browser but I'm unaware of a function key that makes anything, system wide, go full screen in Windows. Would be happy if there was.... but it's not F8

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Exactly - presentation mode is a feature of Chrome, nothing else (or at least as far as I can tell). If someone is to blame for the operation, it's Google, not Apple.

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Caution: Don't go to full screen mode (click the double arrow thingamabob, upper right) and then go to Presentation. If you do, you will be stuck in Presentation (no option to see View).
You'll have to open a new window to be able to get out of Full.

Moving your mouse to the top edge of the screen, regardless of "mode" will reveal the menubar.